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Saturday, 26 February 2011

I have invited Chris J. Date, an independent author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant of international renown, specializing in relational database technology, to have a 2 day seminar "How to Write Correct SQL and Know It: A Relational Approach to SQL". The 2-day seminar will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on May 23-24 2011.

Chris is best known for his book "An Introduction to Database Systems" (eighth edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004), which has sold some 725,000 copies and is used by several hundred colleges and universities worldwide.For more details about this seminar please read on my home page.

Why this seminar? So many times I am involved in performance troubleshooting and in more than 80% of all cases the fault is bad design and poorly written SQL statements. With organizing this event I would like to give a good opportunity to all developers (either on Oracle database or any other database) to get more theoretical knowledge about SQL.

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About Me

I have more than 20 years of experience in working with Oracle products. I began in 1988 with Oracle Database version 4 while working for the City of Ljubljana, where I had charge over the city's municipal and geographic information systems.

More recently, I have specialized in performance optimization, having developed my own tool set for monitoring performance and analyzing trace files.

In addition to sharing my knowledge through conference talks, I am conducting technical seminars organized either by Oracle University or myself.

I am very proud of two highly respected memberships: OakTable network in 2005 and Oracle ACE in 2009 and Oracle ACE Director in July 2010.

When not working with Oracle products I enjoy flying as private pilot (PPL(A) with night rating) with my Mooney M20E year 1966, call-sign G-ATOU. Prior Mooney I had an old Piper PA-28-140B Cherokoee, call sign D-EHFK and I have crossed almost all Europe with her.